pentagon

My brother is having trouble with Pentagon in 8.5. It used to be flaky, but now it just doesn't load. I've come up with no solutions, either on my own or on the forum. I was having next to no trouble with it in X1 essential, but my pc died on me. So, I'm wondering if anyone is having any luck with Pentagon in X2 and either Windows 7 or Windows 8. Any experiences would be appreciated, as I'm trying to decide whether to encourage him to upgrade, and whether to upgrade myself.

D00d I've had so many problems with this synth. I had it once, then projects wouldn't load it anymore even though it was present. I bought it again and reinstalled and now projects with it hang when it's activated in the synth rack. Such a shame because I love the sound of it, but yeah it's a bear. 

Works OK for me apart from the well know "Valley" simulator issue. Any patches that use this effect will stop the audio engine and/or produce a very loud burst of noise.
 
Something is screwy though for so many people to be having problems with it.

A good solution is to right click on your Sonar shortcut, select Properties - Compatibility and check Run As Administrator under Privilege Level. This way you don't have to think about it each time you launch Sonar. 

Thanks for the responses guys. I had already set 8.5 to run as administrator for my brother, but it made no difference at all. For me, X1 was running fine (as well as Pentagon) on XP. My new system will be Windows 7, and I'm pondering the X2 upgrade. I'd hate to lose Pentagon, as it's my go-to analogue.

I'm with scook on this. I really liked Pentagon, but I had nothing but trouble with it. After far too many wasted hours I finally realized my time would be better spent using a stable synth than fighting to make an unstable one work occasionally. I hate to say it, but if you're having trouble with Pentagon (besides the administrator privileges issue) you're best off running far, far away from Pentagon. Rapture is on sale for only $20. A small outlay of cash on a stable synth will allow you to make music instead of fight with your computer.

Rooftree


I'm with scook on this. I really liked Pentagon, but I had nothing but trouble with it. After far too many wasted hours I finally realized my time would be better spent using a stable synth than fighting to make an unstable one work occasionally. I hate to say it, but if you're having trouble with Pentagon (besides the administrator privileges issue) you're best off running far, far away from Pentagon. Rapture is on sale for only $20. A small outlay of cash on a stable synth will allow you to make music instead of fight with your computer.

Rapture is a very nice synth, and in many ways it is more sophisticated than Pentagon, but I don't think it can be considered a replacement. Z3ta +2 is also a very fine synth but again, not quite the same territory as Pentagon.
 
The Korg legacy collection Mono/Poly is realativly inexpensive, has recently been updated to 64 bit and if you like Pentagon, you will like this one.

Well, I got the DXi running for him again. Pentagon is my go to analogue, but I've got several others I can find useable things on. I've always thought that the best of the early synths sounded like there was a beast trying to escape (this could just be me romanticizing it all though). To my ear Pentagon is edgier than most. Thanks for the responses and the suggestions.